Fioletovo
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Fioletovo is a village in the Lori Province of Armenia
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

. The settlement was renamed in 1936 to honor Ivan Fioletov
Ivan Fioletov
Ivan Timofeevich Fioletov Иван Тимофеевич Фиолетов was a Russian Communist activist, one of the Bolshevik Party leaders in Azerbaijan during the Russian Revolution....

, a socialist activist shot along with the Baku Commissars.

This beautiful village has a majority of Molokans, a Christian sect who evolved from Spiritual Christian Russian peasants that refused to obey the Russian Orthodox Church, in the beginning of the 17th century. Few memebrs of the sect settled in Armenia during the 19th century.

The village has an extremely cold winter with a cool and mild summer. It lies under a thick layer of snow during the long winter season, where only the roofs of houses could be seen from the top with their smoking chimneys. The population of the village is diminishing year by year as the immigration is growing among its residents, who are trying to look for better economical conditions, either in Armenia or abroad.
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